Hulu has picked up Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles TV series. The author and her son, Christopher Rice, will executive produce alongside Anonymous Content's David Kanter and Steve Golin. The project, which has been in the works since 2016, "will begin with the story told in The Vampire Lestat and be an entirely open-ended story that could span multiple seasons," TheWrap reported.
Paramount Television and Anonymous Content optioned the rights to 11 of Rice's Vampire Chronicles books for adaptation in 2017, one year after Rice began developing the project. Paramount TV president Amy Powell said at the time: "It is undeniable that Anne Rice has created the paradigm against which all vampire stories are measured. The rich and vast world she has created with the Vampire Chronicles is unmatched and sophisticated with '90s gothic undertones that will be perfectly suited to captivate audiences. The series is full of compelling characters led by Lestat, arguably one of the greatest original characters, literary or otherwise."